/**
* Copyright (C) 2005 Orbeon, Inc.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
* GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
* without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
* See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* The full text of the license is available at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html
*/
/*
* @(#)$Id: Matcher.java,v 1.1 2005/05/04 23:55:58 ebruchez Exp $
*
* Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
*
* This software is the proprietary information of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
* Use is subject to license terms.
*
*/
package org.orbeon.oxf.xforms.msv;
import org.orbeon.msv.relaxng.datatype.Datatype;
/**
* Base abstract implementation of XPath matcher.
*
* XPath mathcer tracks the startElement event and the endElement event.
* The characters event is also used by some derived classes.
*
* @author <a href="mailto:kohsuke.kawaguchi@eng.sun.com">Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI</a>
*/
public abstract class Matcher {
protected final IDConstraintChecker owner;
Matcher( IDConstraintChecker ow ) {
owner = ow;
}
protected abstract void startElement( final org.orbeon.dom.Element elt ) ;
protected abstract void onAttribute(final org.orbeon.dom.Attribute att, final Datatype type ) ;
protected abstract void endElement( final Datatype type ) ;
protected final void characters( final char[] buf, final int start, final int len ) {
// do nothing by default.
}
}